United States v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.2d 931 · 1966
Citation profile
51 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Ross v. United States (1967), United States v. Wilson (1994)
51 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Quercia v. United States · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · National Labor Relations Board v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insure that correspondence between a sender and an addressee be unobstructed until . . . delivered to the addressee and that any person . . . who in any manner interfered with or prevented such delivery, violated the statute which was designed to protect the mail from every kind of danger, theft, or taking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may ask questions and give comments upon the evidence, as he is not a mere moderator, but is in control of the trial to insure its proper conduct, so long as the comments and questions are fair and not designed to mislead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.